Josh Harty + Simon Balto

ISTHMUS PICK

Wednesday, Aug. 3, The Shitty Barn (Spring Green), 7 pm

Two very smart, very talented troubadours are coming together for this bill. Josh Harty, a tireless North Dakotan who’s been recording music since the tender age of 12, will be there in support of Holding On, his first album since 2011. Viroqua’s Simon Balto is a novelistic lyricist with Ryan Adams-esque vocals who also happens to be a college professor, teaching in the history department at Ball State University in Indiana. He finished his Ph.D. last year at UW-Madison and will release a new record, Murmurations, on Aug. 5.